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BACKGROUND: Work-related stress can be defined as an individual’s reactions to work characteristics and indicates a poor relationship between coping abilities and work environment. If unmanaged, stress can impact mental and physical health (e.g., causing depression and cardiovascular disease). Many individuals use maladaptive stress-coping strategies, such as sedentary activities, unhealthy eating behaviors, and alcohol consumption, which do not contribute to long-term stress management. In contrast, stress reduction programs can help people manage and effectively reduce stress in the long term. OBJECTIVE: To gather the state of the art of work-related stress interventions, their efficacy and applications. METHOD: The PsycINFO and EBSCOHost databases were used. The search was carried out between January 28 and March 30, 2019. Inclusion criteria were full text available, text in English or Spanish and a study population comprising workers. RESULTS: Twenty-nine articles that included interventions involving aromatherapy, bibliotherapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, exercise, alternative medicine, mindfulness, technology, stress management and sensory intervention were analyzed. The interventions showed significant reductions in stress, anxiety, depression and burnout; however, most of the studies were not based on specific stress models, and control groups often received no intervention whatsoever. As a result, it is challenging to draw conclusions regarding the success of the interventions, especially if they are novel. CONCLUSION: The results suggest that there is a broad portfolio of successful interventions regarding work-related stress. Most of the successful interventions were based on mindfulness; however, aerobic exercise and bibliotherapy may also be successful. The structure and level of evidence appear to be very relevant to the development of a successful intervention.

The aim of the article is to broaden the knowledge of the selection and the use of literature applied in the education and therapy of children and young people. The text is addressed to teachers, educators, librarians, pedagogues and psychologists who want to develop skills of independent conducting classes with elements of bibliotherapy and to learn the value of reading (not only school) in work with students with special educational and reading needs. The author, referring to the statements of candidates for the teaching profession, draws attention to the therapeutic value of literature. She also encourages independent search and selection of various texts for students who are reluctant to read, students with dyslexia, ADHD and for people with disabilities, chronically ill and struggling with various problems and fears.

OBJECTIVE Psychological treatments for somatic symptom disorder and functional somatic syndromes (SSD/FSS) achieve moderate effects only, potentially because of the high chronicity in these patients. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate whether early treatment, i.e. treatment in populations at risk or with recent onset, improves outcome. METHODS We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of (cluster)-randomized controlled trials evaluating early psychological interventions in the prevention and treatment of SSD/FSS in adults compared to inactive control conditions, standard care or placebo. Individuals at risk for SSD/FSS, suffering from sub-threshold symptoms or new onsets of SSD/FSS, or presenting with SSD/FSS for the first time were included. RESULTS We identified 30 eligible studies, mostly examining pain-related conditions. Interventions were diverse, ranging from bibliotherapy to cognitive behavioral therapy. We found positive effects on depression post-treatment (Hedges' g = 0.12, 95%-CI: [0.03, 0.2], k = 5) as well as on somatic symptom severity (g = 0.25 [0.096, 0.41], k = 17) and health care utilization (g = 0.31 [0.18, 0.44], k = 3) at follow-up. However, due to high risk of bias, sensitivity to corrections for meta-bias, and missing outcome data, findings should be interpreted cautiously. CONCLUSIONS Our review shows that targeting SSD/FSS at an early stage represents a conceptual and practical challenge. Readily accessible interventions addressing transsymptomatic processes of SSD/FSS development and consolidation are highly needed. Future studies are needed to evaluate individuals with diverse symptoms, examine symptom history thoroughly, use placebo controls, and report outcomes completely to determine the efficacy of early psychological interventions for SSD/FSS.PROSPERO registration: CRD42020140122.

Orientation and mobility skills are special skills that must be mastered by children with visual impairment, thus an orientation and mobility intervention program is important to develop. Fear or anxiety in children with visual impairment related to orientation and mobility can be caused by fear from within the children or from the environment. Personality, motivation, psychosocial factor, and family and community attitudes all contribute to one's reaction to mobility activities independently. This research aims to reduce the fear of children with visual impairment in performing orientation and mobility activities by implementing an intervention program through bibliotherapy technique. This research is a case study research with a qualitative approach. Bibliotherapy was carried out on two young children with visual impairment. The results of the program implementation show that children's fear or anxiety could be reduced in both cases in this research as seen by autonomous moves of the two children from the mother and caregiver and began to learn to trace the walls of the room.

Today, the library therapy is a promising library service that librarians can offer in the market. Its efficiency depends significantly on the level of library therapy studies. The history of bibliotherapy in Russia and worldwide is reviewed in brief; approaches to bibliotherapy classification and understanding of bibliotherapy as a discipline at the interface of medicine and librarianship are discussed. The most important stages in the development of bibliotherapy as a scientific discipline are presented. Against the historical retrospective, the main areas of modern bibliotherapy are analyzed. The history of the discipline demonstrates that the bibliotherapeutic studies have been within the methodological framework of library science, cultural studies, psychology, and pedagogy. The vectors of bibliotherapeutic process and the goals of applying bibliotherapy are described. The study and determination of the bibliotherapeutic potential of the book is one of the important problems associated with reading for psychotherapeutic purposes. The author emphasizes that the bibliotherapy effectiveness is determined by several factors, i.e. the professional competitiveness of librarian and quality of bibliotherapeutic service with these two working in synergy.

The relevance of the research is based on more than a year-long restrictions experienced by people of Lithuania and worldwide because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The theoretical part presents a concept for bibliotherapic recommendations for reading. From an interdisciplinary point of view, the research integrates insights from the domains of psychology, public health, information and communication and literary criticism. Individuals experiencing psychological problems, by delving into literature which encourages reflection of humanistic values, during their in-depth reading process, can not only distract themselves from stressful everyday life but also, while identifying themselves with personages of literary works, better conceive themselves and their environment as well as find new ways to solve their problems. This justifies the applicability of bibliotherapy for those who experience social exclusion during the pandemic. The open survey collected data from 17 experts (12 members of the Lithuanian Bibliotherapy Association and 5 practitioners involved in bibliotherapy projects; 4 study participants from the health service sector (psychotherapists); 6 representatives from the education sector; and 7, from the cultural sector). A recommendatory list of books for passive bibliotherapy sessions was drawn. The list comprises 2 topics: (1) recommendations for general bibliotherapy and (2) fiction for health practitioners (81 books in total, 43% of which are accessible online). Every entry in the list includes metadata required for the identification of the work (AUTHOR and title), a brief substantiation of bibliotherapic aspects formulated by experts and the information about the accessibility of the book on the portal ibiblioteka.lt. The list of bibliotherapic literature can be also useful for health practitioners, social activities professionals, organisers of local community activities, librarians and those who wish to provide help by reading.

Bibliotherapy or use of books and literature related activities as a therapeutic method or counselling method to address students’ specific issues is being practiced in several universities in developed countries all over the world. However, there is little evidence from the Sri Lankan scenario. Hence, this study aims to find the university student counsellors’ perception on initiating bibliotherapy service in the university environment as a counseling tool. Structured interviews and a questionnaire survey were conducted using student counsellors at the University of Colombo to check their views on bibliotherapy service. Forty two counsellors responded, representing faculties of Arts, Education, Library, Management, Medical, and the Science, with response rate of 65.63%. Uncertainty about careers and study directions (63.64%), difficulties in motivation or decision making (36.36%), and exam stress and anxiety (34.09%) are the most prominent issues of university students those were brought to the counselors who practiced short-term individual counselling method, followed by workshops and long term group counselling. Only 2.38% of the counsellors are practicing bibliotherapy techniques in combination with other counselling methods. Six student counsellors were able to define the term ‘bibliotherapy’ and had a clear understanding of the method. After having a proper understanding of the bibliotherapy service, all the counsellors believe that bibliotherapy service would help overcome the student issues such as ‘difficulties with English language skills’, ‘uncertainty about careers and study directions’, ‘exam stress and anxiety’, and ‘difficulties in motivation or decision making’ but may not succeed in grief, trauma/loss, specific clinical diagnoses, abuse and substance. 67% of the counsellors identify university library as the most suitable place to develop the collection and self-help materials, work books, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, audio books, audiovisual books, and e-books as the suggested material types. The main selection criteria for developing a bibliotherapy collection are based on the recommendation made by student counsellors. ‘Acquisition of knowledge by diverse people in culture, situations, abilities, experiences, and perspectives’ is identified as the most prominent benefit of bibliotherapy service. Possible challenges also were discussed. Active involvement of the university librarians collaborating with the student counsellors of the university is essential to initiate and continue this service and proper support from the higher authorities of the university is recommended.

Annotation. In contrast to Ukraine, psychosocial rehabilitation in European countries today is gaining considerable popularity for the socialization and reintegration of patients with mental disorders, for their more adaptive self-improvement. The article analyzes the experience in the EU in the latest, modern, psychosocial methods of providing medical care/rehabilitation to patients with mental disorders to improve patient self-management skills, personal reintegration, development of adaptive properties, self-improvement and to reduce health care costs. Hygienic substantiation of measures to optimize living conditions and treatment and rehabilitation process for patients with mental and behavioral disorders. To perform the tasks in the sociological study involved 92 people – relatives of patients with mental disorders using a specially designed questionnaire: “A method of determining the quality of medical care by relatives of a psychiatric patient and the relationship “doctor-relative””. The survey had conducted in January 2020 before the start of quarantine on COVID-19 and the beginning of the second phase of medical reform in the field of psychiatry. The work used content analysis of domestic and foreign scientific sources, bibliosemantic, analytical, and statistical research methods. It has found that the most significant problems faced by patients in providing them with psychiatric care, according to relatives, are the inconsistency of sanitary and hygienic conditions of patients in psychiatric hospitals – 62.6%, low quality of care – 37.3% and inattentive attitude on the part of medical staff – 34.7%. A sociological survey of relatives of patients with mental and behavioral disorders found that patients are referring for treatment only in critical conditions. Treatment of patients with mental and behavioral disorders nowadays, it is necessary to introduce a comprehensive approach, not just psychopharmacological drugs. To do this, each patient must individually develop psychosocial rehabilitation methods: training in music therapy, communication, motivation, sports training, bibliotherapy, art therapy, animal therapy, training to improve social adaptation, activation of independence, as is done in the EU.

Research result that aimed to analyze the contributions of poetic, symbolic, and expressive space-time in the education of preschool teachers, this paper presents and discusses the proposal called “Studio of the Sensitive”. Created in the context of research and structured in ten meetings supported by expressive resources that dialogue with art and other cultural devices - art therapy, bibliotherapy, circular dance, and creative writing -, the “Studio of the Sensitive” was developed with a group of eight teachers of Early Childhood Education of the public network of education. The theoretical-methodological assumptions of analytical and archetypal psychology and autobiographical approaches supported the conduct of the proposal and the research as a whole. Field notes (resonance notebook), photographs of the process, and narrative-expressive material created by the participants constituted the data set. From the textual and imaging narratives of the teachers, numerous symbols emerged. On the one hand, it was noted the recurrence of the symbols “tree” and “birds”, which, due to their significance in the context, were illuminated in the analyzes, presenting themselves as structuring contents of the path of individuation, signaling the paths of aesthetic teacher education. On the other hand, the nest built by means of the “Studio of the sensitive” format, as a space for creation, a plurality of languages, and self-knowledge, revealed aspects that may inspire proposals for teacher education that integrate sensitive and perceptible knowledge. The quality of the times and spaces, the expressive possibilities of the materialities, and the available resources proved to be elements that generate singular poetics, decisive to fertilize the recognition and expansion of the aesthetic and psychic sense in education.

The aim of this study is to reveal the effect of the bibliotherapy technique on the development of general self-efficacy of women with disabled children. The specific objective of the study is to draw attention to bibliotherapy as a method in the library and information science area. The research was conducted with 18 volunteers from 80 mothers of disabled children who received service from ZİÇEV (Mentally Handicapped Education and Protection Foundation) in the 2019-2020 academic year. Group work and the general self-efficacy scale was used to collect data. In the research, 2x2 mixed design (experiment – control – pre-test – post-test) was conducted. The self-efficacy level of the women was chosen as the dependent variable while the independent variable was bibliotherapy activity. 9 women were assigned to the experimental group and the other 9 were the control group. The bibliotherapy program, designed by the researcher, was in six sessions. Each session took 2 hours. The general self-efficacy scale was conducted again at the last session. Statistically significant results were observed between the experimental and control groups. The results of the study showed that bibliotherapy increased the self-efficacy of women with disabled children. The research drew attention to the importance of bibliotherapy in the process of tackling the low self-efficacy levels of women with disabled children. It is expected that the study will contribute to the literature by encouraging interdisciplinary research based on bibliotherapy.

The article presents a narrative qualitative study that included analysis of 54 texts written and published online by 22 women aged 20–40 who had been sexually abused in childhood. The study found ...

Chronic leg and foot ulcer is an endangering health issue secondary to chronic venous insufficiency and Diabetes Mellitus. Apart from physical problems, psychological and emotional disturbances were arising as a co morbid conditions, which interfere with recovery and it could be managed by bibliotherapy. Study was focused to ascertain the effectiveness of bibliotherapy on quality of life, psychological distress and depression of these patients in an Indian context. Randomized controlled trial comparison with parallel group design was chosen. Interventional group received usual care along with bibliotherapy and control group received only usual care. Data were collected pretest, post test (1st week), I follow up (2nd week) and II follow up (3rd week). Cardiff wound impact schedule, Kessler’s psychological distress scale and Beck depression inventory were used. Bibliotherapy was prepared by the researcher based on literatures and qualitative study. Setting was limited to the selected hospitals in Mangalore, India. Power analysis estimated sample size as 50 in interventional group and 50 in control group. Findings imply that compared with controls, patients who received bibliotherapy demonstrated improved quality of life, reduced psychological distress and depression. Conclusively, it recommends psychosocial perspectives of these clients should not be neglected and supporting the therapeutic benefit of bibliotherapy in chronic physical illnesses to reduce mental health burden. Key words: Quality of life, Psychological Distress, Depression, Bibliotherapy, Leg and Foot ulcer.

Objective. The article considers the axiopsychological substantiation of the use of short-term poetic psychotherapy with the works of moral-ethical and existential-spiritual orientation. The aim of the study was descriptive-phenomenological and experimental-statistical proof of the poetry therapy effectiveness in the short term. The study objectives are to substantiate the feasibility of poetry application as a means of harmonizing current mental states and facilitating the prolonged processes of spiritual transformation of the individual; presentation of axiopsychological (subject-value) format of organization and content of poetry therapy; experimental and statistical verification of the effectiveness of the applied poetic therapy format.Research methods: Spielberger and Y. Khanin scale of situational anxiety, G. Eisenko’s method of diagnostics of mental states, R. Eliot’s quality of life questionnaire; descriptive and statistical methods, correlation analysis. Formative experiment was conducted in the form of a poetic evening-training. 18 middle-class adults made up the experimental sample.Results. As a result of the research it has been proved that in the process of poetry therapy there is a harmonization of current mental states and facilitation of personality spiritual transformation in accordance with axiopsychological format of selection and presentation of the author’s texts, determined by the principle on the organic, psychosomatic (relative subject); individual, adaptive-activity (monosubject); interactional, moral and communicative (polysubject); authentic cultural (metasubject); universal, transcendent (absolute subject) levels. The spiritual-transformational potential of poetry is proved to be determined by the intensity and severity of the moral dilemmas embodied in it, and in the near future it is manifested in the dynamics of psycho-emotional states represented at different levels of subjectivity of the recipient of poetry. Conclusions. There is a general tendency to increase the internal integration (harmonization) of mental states, which is a predictor of a mature life position, the strength of the self, the ability to reach an independent, authentic meaning of the individual. At the same time, the recipients of poetry positively re-evaluate the quality of their lives, which is accompanied by greater self-acceptance and assertiveness. References Akoff, R., & Emeri, F.O. (1974). O tseleustremlennykh sistemakh [About purposeful systems]. In I.A. Ushakov (Ed.). Moscow : Sovetskoye radio [in Russian]. Hulias, I.A. (2020). Aksiopsykholohichne proyektuvannya zhyttyevykh dosyahnen’ osobystosti [Axiopsychological design of life achievements of the personality]. Kyiv : Vydavnytstvo «Lyudmyla» [in Ukrainian]. Zaika, V.M. (2006). Osoblyvosti transformatsiyi osobystosti lyudyny v khodi vyrishennya zhyttyevoyi kryzy. Metodychni materialy [Features of transformation of the person in the course of the decision of a life crisis. Methodical materials]. Poltava [in Ukrainian]. Karpenko, Z.S. (1998). Aksiopsykholohiya osobystosti [Axiopsychology of personality]. Kyiv : TOV «Mizhnar. fin. ahentsiya» [in Ukrainian]. Karpenko, Z.S. (2010). Naratyvnyy prostir terapiyi poeziyeyu: sub’yektno-tsinnisnyy pidkhid [The narrative space of poetry therapy: a subject-value approach]. Aktual’ni problemy praktychnoyi psykholohiyi: Zbirnyk naukovykh prats’ – Actual problems of practical psychology: Collection of scientific works, 10, 177–180 [in Ukrainian]. Karpova, N.L., & Leytes, S. (2014). Bibliopsikhologiya i biblioterapiya v obrazovanii, vospitanii i korrektsiya [Bibliopsychology and bibliotherapy in education, upbringing and correction]. In N.L. Karpova (Ed.), Bibliopsikhologiya. Bibliopedagogika. Biblioterapiya – Bibliopsychology. Bibliopedagogy. Bibliotherapy (p. 175–180). 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The paper presents the results of empirical study of parents' attitudes towards their children with special educational needs. The following methods have been used: PARI method (E. Schaefer, R. Bell; adaptation by T. Nescheret), test-questionnaire of parental attitude of A. Varga and V. Stolin; questionnaire 'Analysis of family myth' by A. Nesterova. To clarify and deepen the analysis of research data, two samples of selected participants have been created: a) parents of children with special educational needs and b) parents of children without special educational needs. Two Google forms have been made with appropriate introductory questionnaires and research instructions. The analysis of the results obtained by the methods has revealed the following tendencies in the attitude of parents of children with special educational needs, in comparison with parents of other children: lower level of acceptance; greater concentration on the child and his/her control; a kind of inconsistency in the attitude to their children (simultaneous optimal emotional contact and excessive emotional distance); a sense of self-sacrifice and belief in its necessity. It has been proved, that the usage of different types and forms of art therapy (music, dance-movement, bibliotherapy, fairy tale therapy, phototherapy, film therapy, fine art therapy) helps to correct parents' attitude to their children with special educational needs. In addition, a number of recommendations for the use of art therapy to work with parents of children with special educational needs has been proposed.

This article sets out to present possible application of bibliotherapy in the social therapeutic process. Bibliotherapy and social therapy share such elements as: education, correction of behavioural disorders, personality enhancement, and the prevention of social maladjustment. While analysing the goals of the aforementioned methods, a thesis has been proposed that they may be common for both. Bibliotherapy may serve as reinforcement of the social therapeutic process by enriching it and making it more enjoyable. Its goal is to build up the participants’ personal resources, supporting them in difficult situations, and providing a therapeutic impact. The article points out the key role that a literary text plays in the bibliotherapeutic process, and constitutes a starting point for bibliotherapeutic interactions. The article emphasises the potential of literature as a tool for the therapeutic and educational process, social rehabilitation and health improvement. Thus, social therapy may approach bibliotherapy as a way to enrich its educational and therapeutic offer.

Aim The objective of this study was to assess the efficacy of bibliotherapy for sexual dysfunctions, when compared with no treatment and compared with other interventions. Methods MEDLINE, EMBASE, and PsycINFO were searched from 1970 to January 2020. Selection criteria were randomized controlled trials evaluating assisted or unassisted bibliotherapy for all types of sexual dysfunctions compared with no treatment (wait list or placebo) or with other psychological interventions. Bibliotherapy is defined as psychological treatment using printed instruction to be used by the individual or couple suffering from sexual dysfunction. Primary outcome measures were male and female sexual functioning level and continuation/remission of sexual dysfunction. Secondary outcomes were sexual satisfaction and dropout rate. Sexual functioning and sexual satisfaction were self-reported by participants using validated questionnaires. RESULTS Fifteen randomized controlled trials with a total of 1,113 participants (781 women; 332 men) met inclusion criteria. Compared with no treatment, unassisted bibliotherapy resulted in larger proportions of female participants reporting remission of sexual dysfunction, and sexual satisfaction was higher in treated participants, both female and male participants. Compared with no treatment, assisted bibliotherapy had significant positive effects on female sexual functioning; no effects on male sexual functioning were found. Results of unassisted and assisted bibliotherapy did not differ from those of other intervention types on any outcome. Throughout, no differences between study conditions were found regarding dropout rates. The certainty of the evidence for all outcomes was rated as very low. CONCLUSION We found indications of positive effects of bibliotherapy for sexual dysfunctions. Across studies, more significant effects were found for women than for men. However, owing to limitations in the study designs and imprecision of the findings, we were unable to draw firm conclusions about the use of bibliotherapy for sexual dysfunction. More high quality and larger trials are needed. Relevant outcome measures for future studies should be defined as well as unified grading systems to measure these endpoints. In addition, future studies should report on treatment acceptability and adherence.

In recent decades, a greater awareness and familiarity has developed in relation to incorporating creative approaches to working with individuals and groups within a social work context. Art therapy, music therapy and even drama therapy have become more commonplace within the range of approaches employed by agencies and practitioners working therapeutically. However, the use of literature as a therapeutic tool is perhaps a less well-known, less developed and under-researched area of practice. This article discusses the potential for literature to be used as a therapeutic tool and explores the power of words to enable us to make sense of our surroundings and experiences. The article also presents findings of a small-scale piece of research undertaken with practitioners currently using literature in their practice. Themes arising from this research are explored such as the potential of literature to facilitate reflection, practitioners’ experiences of applying the approach, the value of engaging with literature in developing expressive language and the potential for this work in promoting inclusion.

In this article, I employ illness narrative theory to analyze Emma Woolf’s recovery from anorexia through autobiographical writing. This is a novel approach, insomuch as anorexia memoirs focusing o...

The article analyzes current ideas on the problem of conflict resolution by high school students who use different types of art therapy. This area of scientific knowledge is designed to help individuals realize their inner state by creating a visual image, metaphors, symbols, videos; it is the development of a person's inherent creativity, which helps in resolving conflict situations. Through creative self-expression, art therapy actualizes personal resources to overcome contradictory situations and gives way to the accumulated energy, thereby harmonizing the emotional sphere. Creating abstract images, the student finds answers to many relevant questions, explores fears and barriers to communication. These images occur unconsciously and spontaneously, which is why anxiety and resistance to self-knowledge are reduced. This provides a diverse range of tools for working with the emotional sphere of the individual. In this context, the content, historical aspect, specifics of art therapy in the use of higher education by students are analyzed. The types of art therapy in solving students' conflict situations are generalized. According to the study, students in overcoming conflict situations prefer the following types of art therapy: music therapy, phototherapy, isotherapy, bibliotherapy, dance and movement therapy, collage, performance, drama, media art therapy and other types. They are harmoniously complemented by combined logotherapy with the use of virtual communication of social networks, which, in the experience of students, provides a quality constructive result in conflict resolution. The latest and most relevant performance, drama therapy, media art therapy in the format of blogging on various Internet platforms are becoming a separate modern type of art therapy that helps creative self-expression, self-affirmation, self-actualization and self-healing of the student's personality.

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The research design used the Pre Experiment Design with a one-group pre-post test design. The population, preschool-aged children who experience hospitalization stress in the Karunia Room of Kediri Baptist Hospital. The sample is 15 respondents who were selected by Quota Sampling. The research variable was Bibliotherapy. The data collection process was carried out using a questionnaire. Data analysis using Paired Samples Test. The results of the research before doing bibliotherapy, stress hospitalization of preschool children were severe as 9 respondents (60.0%), mild as many as 4 respondents (26.7%), and moderate as many as 2 respondents (13.3%). The average change in stress hospitalization before and after bibliotherapy was 7.67 with a p-value of 0.000. Bibliotherapy is effective in reducing hospitalization stress in preschool children in the Karunia Room of Kediri Baptist Hospital

Children are part of family and society. Children assume hospitalization is a threatening condition for him so that the response that arises is anxiety. Anxiety in chlidren is characterized by children refusing to eat and drink, difficulty sleeping, crying continuously, not cooperating with health workers. To reduce his anxiety, he can use the book as a therapeutic media called bibliotherapy. his study aims to determine the effect of bibliotherapy using longer picture books on anxiety levels of children aged 3-6 years during hospitalization. The type of research was pre-experimental with the design of one group pretest - posttest desaign without the control group with 31 respondents. The sampling technique is Consecutive sampling. The data collection tool uses observation. The results showed that the average anxiety level before bibliotherapy used a longer picture book, which was 39.16, while after bibliotherapy it used a longer picture book which was 23.71. With the Wilcoxon test obtained p-value = 0,000

The purpose of this study is to find out the effectiveness of bibliotherapy in improving honest character of elementary school students. The background in this research is the low honest character of elementary school students. Based on the results of interview to teachers and parents, the character that must be strengthened on the elementary students are honest character. This is because many students in elementary school started to act dishonestly from cheating and lying. Bibliotherapy is a method of healing (therapy) using books. The type of this research is a pre-eksperimental design with one group pretest-posttest design. The subjects are 10 students from 3rd grade of SDN Kananga in Jatinangor district-Sumedang Regency. The research data were collected through the pretest and posttest scores using the measurements of the honestly scale. Based on the calculation results of the N-Gain score test, it shows that the average N-Gain score using bibliotheraphy is 78.76 with a minimum N-Gain score is 74.15 and a maximum N-Gain score is 83,36. It is included in the effective category with high level of effectiveness criteria. So it can be concluded that bibliotherapy can improve the honest character of elementary students in SDN Kananga.

Academic procrastination is related to the tendency to procrastinate and waste time before collection limits associated with school academic activities. Based on the cognitive theory of procrastination behavior caused by cognitive distortions, it is necessary to make efforts to reconstruct the procrastinator's cognitive behavior. It is believed that a behavioral cognitive approach can be applied to manage procrastination and produce substantial improvements. In particular, the technique used is bibliotherapy. The aim of the study was to examine the effectiveness of bibliotherapy techniques in reducing academic procrastination. Implementation of the intervention using the group counseling setting. This study used a pretest-posttest randomized experimental design. Involving the subject as many as 7 class VIII students who were selected purposively. The main instrument used is the Academic Procrastination Scale (APS). Data were analyzed using the Wilcoxon signed rank test statistical test. The results showed that bibliotherapy techniques were effective in reducing academic procrastination of students at Al Abidin Islamic Junior High School, Surakarta.

Background The acknowledgment of the mental health toll of the COVID-19 epidemic in healthcare workers has increased considerably as the disease evolved into a pandemic status. Indeed, high prevalence rates of depression, sleep disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have been reported in Chinese healthcare workers during the epidemic peak. Symptoms of psychological distress are expected to be long-lasting and have a systemic impact on healthcare systems, warranting the need for evidence-based psychological treatments aiming at relieving immediate stress and preventing the onset of psychological disorders in this population. In the current COVID-19 context, internet-based interventions have the potential to circumvent the pitfalls of face-to-face formats and provide the flexibility required to facilitate accessibility to healthcare workers. Online cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in particular has proved to be effective in treating and preventing a number of stress-related disorders in populations other than healthcare workers. The aim of our randomized controlled trial study protocol is to evaluate the efficacy of the ‘My Health too’ CBT program—a program we have developed for healthcare workers facing the pandemic—on immediate perceived stress and on the emergence of psychiatric disorders at 3- and 6-month follow-up compared to an active control group (i.e., bibliotherapy). Methods Powered for superiority testing, this six-site open trial involves the random assignment of 120 healthcare workers with stress levels > 16 on the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) to either the 7-session online CBT program or bibliotherapy. The primary outcome is the decrease of PSS-10 scores at 8 weeks. Secondary outcomes include depression, insomnia, and PTSD symptoms; self-reported resilience and rumination; and credibility and satisfaction. Assessments are scheduled at pretreatment, mid-treatment (at 4 weeks), end of active treatment (at 8 weeks), and at 3-month and 6-month follow-up. Discussion This is the first study assessing the efficacy and the acceptability of a brief online CBT program specifically developed for healthcare workers. Given the potential short- and long-term consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare workers’ mental health, but also on healthcare systems, our findings can significantly impact clinical practice and management of the ongoing, and probably long-lasting, health crisis. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04362358, registered on April 24, 2020.

Review of the book: Mazuritsky A. M. Libraries in the years of Great Patriotic War: A learning guide. – Orel, 2020. – 139 p.The reviewed textbook introduces to the history of Russian librarianship during the Great Patriotic War. The structure of the manual is overviewed. The didactic analysis demonstrates the presentation logic which facilitates learning and is of great ethical educative value. In terms of scientific discussion, recommendations are given for further development of this subject scope to cover the following issues: 1) library support facilities for high morale and combative mood of the Red Army (the front-line and navy libraries); 2) library support of healing and bibliotherapy (hospital libraries); 3) library and information support of promising research and development projects (scientific and technical libraries of plants and factories); 4) libraries in the system of cultural, educational, moral and psychological support for the residents of blockaded Leningrad; 5) library support of high morale of the population and its faith in the victory over the enemy. The significance and relevance of the learning guide is emphasized. The reviewer recommends to prepare a textbook on the history of library construction during the Great Patriotic War.

This case study uses three different frameworks of inquiry to examine Turtles All the Way Down by John Green (2017) with a disability lens. The analysis extends beyond the traditional medical/social dichotomy and considers how disability is tied to both agency and identity. Narratives and counter-narratives of disability are also investigated, as well as disability markers used in previous scholarship. The discussion concludes with an argument to include the novel in secondary English classes to create mental health allies. A consideration for medical humanities scholars is also included to use Green’s text with patients with OCD, as a way for readers to find an identifiable protagonist.

This article explored the theoretical, conceptual and empirical review of school librarians' perception, knowledge and attitude towards bibliotherapy in Nigeria. It focused on the review of relevant and related literature on theme of the article. The paper presented the conceptual clarifications on the theme and nuances of bibliotherapy and its goals just as it considered how librarians perceive the use of bibliotherapy in schools as well as their knowledge of and attitudes towards bibliotherapy use in schools. Recommendations were made based on the need for the use of bibliotherapy by school librarians in addressing diverse issues confronting students in schools in Nigeria.

The healing potential of books has been known since ancient times, while the term “bibliotherapy” was used for the first time in 1916. Since that time, the concept of bibliotherapy has still been developing. The goal of the article is to discover the methods of using bibliotherapy among young monks and students in theological seminaries. The author tries to explain the definition of bibliotherapy through the prism of literature — books written by the biggest Polish figures of this discipline, e.g. Irena Borecka or Wiktor Czernianin. Furthermore, some paragraphs of the text are devoted to the structure of The Holy Bible. The author highlights includes various paragraphs or scenes that might have a healing potential.Finally, the author reveals that the answers given by young monks and students in theological seminaries leads to the clear conclusion that using bibliotherapy among them happens very gently and often inadvertently. The article presents multiple observations when the survey respondents felt better, consoled, or comforted after reading The Holy Bible. The results of the study also point to moments when they experienced katharsis. The text presents their very own observations as extraordinary material for future reference.

IGNITE, a high school-based programme, was developed for high ability underachievers using the Achievement Orientation Model (AOM), Maker Model, and Bibliotherapy in a mainstream setting. This paper reports on the effects discovered while implementing the programme over the course of 2 years. Year 7 (13 year olds) and Year 9 (15 year olds) students were trained to use the two interventions, incorporating one of these interventions to challenge their learning in the classroom. The programme for each cohort lasted approximately 10 weeks. Identification alone appeared to increase academic self-efficacy for many of these underachievers. Students were empowered by the student agency involved which supports many of the AOM’s assertions, in particular, environmental perceptions and goal valuation. The interventions, Maker Model and Bibliotherapy, should be used concurrently to produce self-directed students and reduce underachievement in high ability students as they appear to target different factors in the Achievement Orientation Model.

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